Volume 1: Kitazawa Volume Chapter 45: Blindness
"Hmm......" The dazzling light shone on Liu Ran's face from the edge of the cave entrance, illuminating the mud sticking to her face, like a flower cat rolling in the mud.
Liu Ran couldn't stand the rays of the light, his brows furrowed, he turned over and slowly opened his eyes, and saw the top of the cave with strange rocks.
In the moment of wakefulness, all the memories were like floods that opened the floodgates, dispelling all Liu Ran's sleepiness in an instant, and the strong uneasiness made her get up and wrap the wolf skin on her body tightly.
What about Ye Xuan?
Liu Ran's first thought was him, and he was able to survive until now all because of this boy, both psychologically and in action.
Liu Ran's panicked eyes scanned the surroundings uneasily, and finally found a figure holding a sword at the mouth of the cave.
"Ye Xuan!"
Liu Ran suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, and his uneasy mood decreased a little. That figure was not majestic, but it could feel reassuring from her, and it could take her out safely even in the most dangerous times.
"Ye Xuan?" Liu Ran thought that Ye Xuan didn't hear it and shouted again. She felt that she had recovered well, and she didn't know why she had recovered a lot, and the toxins had been removed, leaving only the wound on her calf still there, and she couldn't stand up and move for the time being.
"Ye Xuan, look, I'm much better now. Liu Ran called out in surprise to the sword-wielding figure at the mouth of the cave, she was now close to healing and had shaken off the shadow of death.
The momentary joy dispelled the current haze and made Liu Ran cheerful, and when his strength was restored, all problems would be solved.
Ye Xuan stood at the entrance of the cave, and after hearing the sound, his body stiffened suddenly, and a jade box in his hand fell to the ground and shattered. Liu Ran looked at the jade box curiously, feeling a little familiar.
Liu Ranshui's big eyes flickered a few times and suddenly shrank, it seemed to be ...... The box containing the longevity fruit, the medicine that can save Grandma Ye Xuan's name.
Just now, the box was broken, but what about the longevity fruit inside?
"You're awake. ”
Ye Xuan turned around and looked at Liu Ran with a blank gaze, his body stiffened and walked over, the ghost tooth sword in his hand kept exploring in front of him, like a blind man.
As he walked, it deviated from the direction, and this direction was not where Liu Ran was.
"I'm here...... I am here. Liu Ran struggled to get up, but fell to the ground again due to a leg injury, and was steadily dragged by Ye Xuan, who stepped forward. At such a close distance, Liu Ran could see his eyes clearly, which were already gray and yellow.
"Your eyes...... What's the matter, your eyes ......" Liu Ran's trembling hand shook in front of Ye Xuan, and he found that he was completely unmoved, like a blind man.
"How are you recovering, is the poison clean?" Ye Xuan put down Liu Ran and seemed to deliberately avoid this topic.
"I'm asking what's wrong with your eyes!" Liu Ran suddenly raised his voice and asked loudly, his eyes were red, and his eyes seemed to be flowing down at any time.
"I ......" Ye Xuan hesitated, not knowing what to say.
"Your eyes weren't like this before. Liu Ran touched Ye Xuan's eyes with trembling hands, and his voice gradually choked.
"I seem to ...... It's out of sight. Ye Xuan finally didn't find a suitable excuse and confessed his current situation.
Ever since he gave Liu Ran the Immortal Fruit, his eyes had begun to deteriorate and become more and more blurry. Although he took antidote drugs immediately after inhaling poisonous blood for Liu Ran at that time, he also took precautions before taking poisonous blood.
He never imagined that the poison concocted by the barbarians was so powerful, that only a small part of it could be indirectly contaminated to blind his eyes.
After Liu Ran's condition was completely stabilized, he couldn't see, and he couldn't tell how long it had been since now, and his eyes couldn't even feel the light.
Counting that three or four days should have passed, he didn't dare to leave the cave halfway through, and the food prepared before entering the Winter Spirit Ancient Realm survived, and there was no warm clothing.
"That'...... What about the longevity fruit?" Liu Ran looked at the jade box that had been broken, and his heart was suddenly filled with guilt. lowered his head and sobbed against Ye Xuan's chest.
When she touched Ye Xuan's body, Liu Ran trembled violently, and she felt that his body was as cold as ice. Seeing that there was only a tattered thin cloth robe left on him, he cried and hugged Ye Xuan and wrapped the wolf skin around him. Has he been guarding the entrance of the cave like this for so long?
"After you fell asleep, the toxins started to attack and the fever did not go away, and I had no choice but to use the longevity fruit on you. ”
Ye Xuan sighed, it was really too difficult to make this choice. These days he has been wondering whether his choice is the right one, hope and despair always coexist, and they can only be separated.
Until the end, Ye Xuan did not come to a conclusion, because no matter what he did, the result would make him feel guilty and painful. These days, Ye Xuan is haggard to the extreme, and he is in a tangle all the time.
"Isn't that a life-saving medicine for your grandmother?" Liu Ran buried his face in Ye Xuan's chest and whimpered with self-blame, in the end it was his own reason.
"If I don't save you, you'll die faster, medicine...... Can you find it again......" Ye Xuan gritted his teeth, he couldn't find a reasonable word to alleviate Liu Liuran's pain, and there was no way to make this cruel fact that had happened happen again.
Let him watch a man die, he can't do it.
As for whether the medicine can be found, Ye Xuan wants to sell the Ghost Tooth Sword after letting it out, and maybe it can be found on the black market. I'm already a machine spirit master, and I should be able to make money very quickly.
"I'm sorry Ye Xuan...... I'm sorry...... I'm sorry...... It's all my fault, I shouldn't run out of playfulness...... I'm sorry......" Liu Ran felt extremely guilty, if he hadn't run out of playfulness, everything would not have happened.
"Liu Ran, crying won't solve any problems. Ye Xuan gently cupped Liu Ran's cheek: "We are still alive, we will not die, understand?" Ye Xuan's godless eyes seemed to have a brilliance again, which made Liu Ran stunned.
"It's not over yet, have you forgotten how Qianqian died? Of the thirty-four individuals of the Thunder Eagle Mercenary Regiment, only five were left in the end, and we were carrying the hope of their twenty-nine souls. We're going to take their souls back to our hometown, understand!" Ye Xuan's voice gradually choked.
He has to go further away, he has to find his sister, it is impossible to die here, this is not his end!
"......"
"We have no way out!" Ye Xuan interrupted Liu Ran: "We can definitely go out, right!" Ye Xuan wiped away Liu Ran's tears and comforted the boy who he thought was a little fragile in his heart.
"Let's open the spirit axis first and see what the situation is outside, is the news of the barbarian invasion confirmed?" Ye Xuan has become blind, and he can't see anything, and his divine soul power has also been sealed.
"Hmm!"
Liu Ran wiped away her tears and stopped crying. Indeed, as Ye Xuan said, crying can't solve any problems, she still has to go out, and she has to carry those dead souls home, there are enough tragedies. Liu Ran took a few deep breaths and corrected his mentality, the most important thing now is to live.
"It's been four days, so long?" Liu Ran was taken aback when she looked at the date on it after opening the spirit axis, she had actually slept for so long. The time on the spiritual axis is still calculated according to the time outside, twelve hours. The night in the territory of Dongling Gu is twice as dark as the day, and a day here is almost two days outside.
"The Ministry of Wind Hyacinth said that a broken spatial teleportation spirit array was found on the ancient battlefield in the extreme west, and everyone was summoned to rush there to discuss the method of activating the spirit array, and the news of the barbarian invasion has been confirmed, according to incomplete statistics, the death toll is about two thousand. ”
"More than 1,300 people have arrived, 20 percent of whom are wounded and unable to take part in the battle, 3,000 have been killed, and the whereabouts of the rest are unknown. ”
When Liu Ran's face turned pale after reading this news, although Ye Xuan was mentally prepared, this number still shocked him. There were 7,000 people when they came in, and the number of them was so rapidly reduced?
"How far are we from that battlefield?" Ye Xuan's first thought was there, he had seen that battlefield in the phantom realm of the Burning Feather Bow, if it wasn't for him to show the way to the Ministry of Wind Letters, it is estimated that people would not even have a place to go now.
"The map shows more than 200 miles. ”
"More than two hundred miles...... Ye Xuan roughly calculated the distance, feeling a little tricky, such a distance spanned the entire Winter Spirit Ancient Realm.
Although Liu Ran has recovered a lot, he is still unable to walk, although his state is still in the past, the wounds on his body have been almost treated, but the internal injuries are still there.
At that time, I fought hard with the barbarians a few times, the situation was too urgent, I didn't control it well, and I was knocked away, and it seemed that my ribs were broken. This cave was forcibly occupied by Ye Xuan who forcibly killed a first-grade spirit beast, and his right arm was injured during the battle, and now he can't even hold the sword anymore and can no longer support him in the fight.
There may be barbarians on the way to the ancient battlefield, he can see it, and maybe he can run away, but now that he is blind and has to take Liu Ran with him, Ye Xuan can't guarantee absolute safety.
"We ...... How did you get over?" Liu Ran raised his head quietly, looking at Ye Xuan's gray-yellow pupils, he felt guilty in his heart, and he had no idea at all and didn't know what to do.
"At the moment, it seems that I can only carry you through. Ye Xuan stood up, his cold body had gradually eased and he was able to move. After being reforged by the Phoenix Divine Flame, Ye Xuan's body did become stronger, with a strong ability to resist cold and repair.
He didn't get sick after three or four days of freezing without cold items, he just felt very cold. Moreover, the toxin was ingested by mouth at that time, and it did not invade the heart at all, but only hurt his eyes, and objectively speaking, the result was good.
Although it is said that the speed of the wolf rider in the swamp is much lower than his own speed, if he really wants to run on flat ground, Ye Xuan's speed may be comparable to that of the wolf rider, and he can escape by taking advantage of the surrounding terrain.
But only if he can see.
"Let's go, you come and be my eyes, I'll carry you!"
After a long time, Ye Xuan stretched out his hand to Liu Ran.
In the snow forest, Ye Xuan carried Liu Ran on his back in the knee-deep snow, and his body was draped in a wolf skin that was extremely hidden in the snow.
"After ten steps a tree moved a little to the right...... After three steps, go downhill carefully...... The snow in front of him is relatively thick, and the snow is relatively ......thick," Liu Ran lay on Ye Xuan's back and "accurately" pointed him the way, although Ye Xuan had fallen seven or eight times, and his body was snow-white.
"Look around. ”
"Rest assured, I'm a wind attribute that can sense far away. Liu Ran is still quite confident in this.
"That's good. Ye Xuan stepped on the snow under his feet and continued to walk.
"But why are you so light, you feel like a girl. As soon as Ye Xuan asked, Liu Ran, who was originally lying on Ye Xuan's back well-behaved, suddenly stiffened, and her slowly straightened up body no longer attached to Ye Xuan's back.
"If you hadn't said you'd be a boy, I'm afraid I'd have thought you'd be a girl. With such a handsome appearance, your mother must be very beautiful. Ye Xuan was talking to himself awkwardly, he should have found out that Liu Ran was a girl, but he still stupidly thought that Liu Ran was a boy with a weak personality, and still treated him as a boy.
"I don't know...... She died before I can remember. A trace of inexplicability flashed in Liu Ran's eyes, and he leaned back on Ye Xuan's shoulder.
"I'm sorry. ”
"It's nothing, what about you, you're already a machine spirit master, and your father and mother will definitely be proud of you. Speaking of Ye Xuan's powerful divine soul power, Liu Ran stuck out his tongue, his divine soul power talent was about to catch up with his eldest brother.
"I don't have a father, I was picked up by my grandmother. As soon as Ye Xuan spoke, the two of them trembled in their hearts at the same time, an inexplicable emotion spread, and neither of them spoke.
Liu Ran lay quietly on Ye Xuan's shoulder, and his body was wrapped back in the wolf skin. Ye Xuan also stopped talking and memorized Liu Ran, and hurried away silently......